This objection, however, does not hold good, for even in ordinary things that revolve with great force, such as a potter’s wheel, or a top, we find that the motion at first is slow, but by degrees it becomes very rapid.  In the same way the passion of the woman having gradually increased, she has a desire to discontinue coition, when all the semen has fallen away.  And there is a verse with regard to this as follows: ‘The fall of the semen of the man takes place only at the end of coition, while the semen of the woman falls continually, and after the semen of both has all fallen away then they with for the discontinuance of coition’.  

Lastly, Vatsyayana is of the view that the semen of the female falls in the same way as that of the male.  Now some may ask here: If men and women are beings of the same kind, and are engaged in bringing about the same result, why should they have different work to do?  Vatsyayana says that this is so, because the ways of working, by which men are the actors, and women are the persons acted upon, is owing to the nature of the male and the female, otherwise the actor would be sometimes the person acted upon, and vice versa.  And from this difference in the ways of working follows the difference in the consciousness of pleasure, for a man thinks, ‘This woman is united with me,’ and a woman thinks, ‘I am united with this man.’ 

It may be said that if the ways of working in men and women are different, why should not there be a difference even in the pleasure they feel, and which is the result of those ways.  

But this objection is groundless, for the person acting and the person acted upon being of different kinds, there is a reason for the difference in their ways of working; but there is no reason for any difference in the pleasure they feel, because they both naturally derive pleasure from the act they perform.  

On this again some may say that when different persons are engaged in doing the same work, we find that they accomplish the same end or purpose; while, on the contrary, in the case of men and women we find that each of them accomplishes his or her own end separately, and this is inconsistent.  But this is a mistake, for we find that sometimes two things are done at the  same time, as for instance in the fighting of rams, both the rams receive the shock at the same time on their heads.  Again, in throwing one wood apple against another, and also in a fight or struggle of wrestlers.  If it be said that in these cases the things employed are of the two persons is the same.  And as the difference in their ways of working arises from the difference of their conformation only, it follows that men experience the same kind of pleasure as women do.

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